TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released

TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released

The European Commission has been accused of a cover-up after refusing to release details of talks between its officials and the tobacco industry during negotiations over the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty.

Corporate lobbying campaigners published documents that revealed the EU’s executive body had met and corresponded with lobbyists from British American Tobacco and Philip Morris.

But the documents, as released, revealed little else.

Read original article at independent.co.uk

31 August 2015
Original Author: Paul Gallagher